Only if teachers are trained and acquire experience using learning technologies they will be likely to succeed using those technologies in their own classes. This is one of the main observations contained in the article “Teach the Teachers” written by Edinger,
Social Learning: more peer interaction
In the recent years we have been witnesses to the socialization of many web applications. For instance, an application for running like Endomondo or Sport Tracker not only it registers my workouts and gives me all kind of reports, but…
Master Learners
Sometimes it happens that you have to overcome a situation which is difficult, one that you would have preferred to avoid. However, once you have succeed in overcoming such situation, you are happy to have faced and solved this.More or…
Turning our class into a Learning Community
This week we have turned back to learning foundations, with the guidance of Chris Dede, from Harvard. And so, I feel the same inquietude about Classical education in contrast with Web 2.0 Learning. He notice a shift at two levels:…
Media Content for Learning
Again, it comes to me that different tools are more appropriate for learning at different levels (I mean school, high school, college, lifelong learning, etc.) This week we address several Web 2.0 tools where content is not text, though…
Group 2 – Blog Summary
This is a synthesis of EDTEC 467 Group 2 Blogs – Week 6. The topic is about blogs as a learning tool.The Blogs that have been summarized are the followings:Sharray Kleinfelter Chrystal Maggiore Devon MowerJosemaria Carazo…
Personal Knowledge Management
The first time I used a blog, the reason was that I enjoy taking photos, even with my mobile. I used to take photos of views that just appeared in front of me. Like a night view, or the last…
Web 2.0 Tools
There are some thoughts -none of them new, I think- that I have repeated to myself while reading the articles of this week, which, by the way, have seemed to me to be really good. Teachers have to be trained….
Teacher 2.0
About 10 years ago, I got the chance of visiting European Union institutions in Brussels with others students. During one of the visits, we were guided by an Italian, who was working as European functionary for several years. What…
Learning 2.0 – Community Edition
A week before, I was asked about what I expected to achieve, to learn, in this current course -EDTEC 467. To be honest, I didn’t know what to answer. I was just wandering how it would be, I mean the…
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